As the transition From SD to HD rolls on, many producers find themselves either combining formats or serving SD on an HD platter. Luckily, there is a surge in software development to make this task easier for the working producer. Digital Anarchy has a plug-in named ReSizer 2.0, that provides the flexibility of being able to intelligently rescale footage in After Effects and Final Cut Pro yeilding a higher quality image.

Resizer 2.0

Gives you greater control of the sharpening and smoothing of an image than what you would find in AE or FCP alone. You'll also find a Deinterlacer for busy, interlaced SD footage that contains lots of movement.

Resizer operates on Mac OS X and Windows Systems (98 ME and higher) and is compatible with After effects 5.5 and higher (including 7.0), Final Cut Pro 4.0 and higher and Premiere Pro 2.0. Give it a free test run or buy it for $149.

Delivers the highest possible quality conversion for SD to HD. Its advanced tool set offers sharp, motion-compensated de-interlacing and de-noising; advanced pan and scan; and a super-resolution algorithm for providing actual resolution enhancement in an editing application. All these features are combined into one plug-in with an easy-to-use preset menu for choosing the right HD and 2K output formats.